The RC2 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Estephe) is now available. This RC2 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26, X.org server 1.6, and kernel 2.6.29. This RC2 version proposes also nearly all of the 2009 Spring design. This version will allow you also to dump in a very easy way All available One hybrid isos on a USB key and then install Mandriva Linux on netbooks.

Mandrake was one of the first distros that struck a balance between user-friendliness and bleeding-edge.
As mentioned by others, they had graphical tools for things that were done by editing config files by most
distros at the time.
What isn't often mentioned is that their tools would work
from either console or X. If you were in console mode and ran harddrake, you'd get an Curses-like interface and
if you ran the same command from an X-term, you'd get a graphical tool.